There are now multiple ways in which investors can exercise their rights to influence the behaviour of companies. Investor clearinghouses, exchanges and fora have all been set up to facilitate more and better engagement between investors and companies on a range of environmental, social and governance issues. But one often repeated complaint, including most recently at a French/British seminar on engagement, is that too much of this engagement happens behind closed doors and so wider knowledge of – and interest in – engagement remains muted.
